Alert archive / Alabama / Wind Advisories in 2006
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this wind advisory at Mar 9, 2006, 11:27 AM CST for 10 counties in Alabama; 5 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2006, 11:27 AM CST (17:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2006, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Butler County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS74 KMOB 091727 NPWMOB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1127 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ...STRONG WINDS TO CONTINUE INTO EARLY EVENING... . A DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WELL NORTHWEST OF THE AREA HAS INCREASED THE PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE REGION. THIS INCREASE HAS CAUSED THE SURFACE WINDS TO BE IN EXCESS OF 25 MPH FOR AT TIMES. THE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN SUSTAINED ABOVE 25 MPH FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...THAT HAVE DEVELOPED IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. THE STORMS MOVING EAST ACROSS SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE LATER THIS EVENING. WINDS SHOULD DIMINISH AFTER THE THUNDERSTORMS PASS BUT THEN PICK UP AGAIN FROM THE SOUTHWEST AND WEST. ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-100130- /O.NEW.KMOB.WI.Y.0002.060309T1727Z-060310T0300Z/ CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-LOWER MOBILE- LOWER BALDWIN-INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA-WAYNE-PERRY- GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BUTLER...LISMAN...SILAS...CHATOM... MILLRY...JACKSON...THOMASVILLE...GROVE HILL...CAMDEN... PINE HILL...HOMEWOOD...MONROEVILLE...EVERGREEN...GREENVILLE... LUVERNE...BRANTLEY...ATMORE...BREWTON...EAST BREWTON... ANDALUSIA...OPP...PRICHARD...SARALAND...BAY MINETTE... TILLMANS CORNER...THEODORE...DAPHNE...FAIRHOPE...FOLEY... SPANISH FORT...CENTURY...FLOMATON...MOLINO...PENSACOLA... FERRY PASS...BRENT...WEST PENSACOLA...BELLVIEW...ENSLEY... MYRTLE GROVE...JAY...PACE...MILTON...GULF BREEZE...CRESTVIEW... WRIGHT...FORT WALTON BEACH...NICEVILLE...DESTIN...SEMINOLE... EGLIN AFB...VALPARAISO...WAYNESBORO...RICHTON...BEAUMONT... NEW AUGUSTA...LEAKESVILLE...MCLAIN...WIGGINS...LUCEDALE 1127 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS GREATER THAN 25 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR MORE THAN ONE HOUR. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION ESPECIALLY ON EAST WEST ROADS...BRIDGES AND OVER PASSES. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS74 KMOB 100303 NPWMOB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 901 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... .THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. WINDS ACROSS THE AREA HAVE DECREASED TO BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS AND WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. SOME WIND GUSTS TO 20 MPH ARE STILL POSSIBLE ACROSS EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA...MAINLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 65 THROUGH MIDNIGHT. ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-100415- /O.EXP.KMOB.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-060310T0300Z/ CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-LOWER MOBILE- LOWER BALDWIN-INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA-WAYNE-PERRY- GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BUTLER...LISMAN...SILAS...CHATOM... MILLRY...JACKSON...THOMASVILLE...GROVE HILL...CAMDEN... PINE HILL...HOMEWOOD...MONROEVILLE...EVERGREEN...GREENVILLE... LUVERNE...BRANTLEY...ATMORE...BREWTON...EAST BREWTON... ANDALUSIA...OPP...PRICHARD...SARALAND...BAY MINETTE... TILLMANS CORNER...THEODORE...DAPHNE...FAIRHOPE...FOLEY... SPANISH FORT...CENTURY...FLOMATON...MOLINO...PENSACOLA... FERRY PASS...BRENT...WEST PENSACOLA...BELLVIEW...ENSLEY... MYRTLE GROVE...JAY...PACE...MILTON...GULF BREEZE...CRESTVIEW... WRIGHT...FORT WALTON BEACH...NICEVILLE...DESTIN...SEMINOLE... EGLIN AFB...VALPARAISO...WAYNESBORO...RICHTON...BEAUMONT... NEW AUGUSTA...LEAKESVILLE...MCLAIN...WIGGINS...LUCEDALE 901 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED AT 9 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ALLOWED THE WIND ADVISORY TO EXPIRE AT 9 PM CST THIS EVENING. $$
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.